Relationship between measures of adiposity, blood pressure and arterial stiffness in adolescents. The MACISTE study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Children and adolescents with adiposity excess are at increased risk of future cardiovascular (CV) disease. Fat accumulation promotes the development of elevated blood pressure (BP) and arterial stiffness, two main determinants of CV risk which are strongly inter-related. We aimed at investigating whether the association between overweight and arterial stiffness, taken at different arterial segments, is mediated by increased BP or is BP-independent.

Methods

Three hundred and twenty-two Italian healthy adolescents (mean age 16.9±1.4 years, 12% with overweight) attending the "G. Donatelli" High School in Terni, Italy, underwent measurement of arterial stiffness by arterial tonometry (aortic stiffness) and semiautomatical detection of pressure-volume ratio of the comm

SUBMITTER: Pucci G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10241423 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature